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The big NATO 2016 Summit begins in Warsaw today. On the agenda is approving a NATO force of up to 4,000 troops to be stationed on Russia's borders in the Baltic. It will be the first regular troop deployment aimed at Moscow since the fall of the Berlin Wall more than a quarter-century ago.
A Marine Corps officer who is facing discharge for the mishandling of sensitive information is demanding the same treatment that Hillary Clinton received when the FBI chose not to indict her over her storage of classified emails.
What we shouldn't do now is inflame the situation further through saber-rattling and warmongering…
Whoever believes that a symbolic tank parade on the alliance's eastern border will bring security is mistaken. ..
We are well-advised to not create pretexts to renew an old confrontation…
(It would be) fatal to search only for military solutions and a policy of deterrence.
What we shouldn't do now is inflame the situation further through saber-rattling and warmongering…
Whoever believes that a symbolic tank parade on the alliance's eastern border will bring security is mistaken. ..
We are well-advised to not create pretexts to renew an old confrontation…
(It would be) fatal to search only for military solutions and a policy of deterrence.
The Israeli agents who comprise the Neoconservatives, a collection of war criminals that control US foreign policy, have already handed you your death certificate. The neoconservatives have far more power than they have intelligence or humanity.
At the recent St. Petersburg International Economic Conference, President Putin excoriated Western Journalists for endlessly repeating Washington's lies that are driving the world to nuclear war. He asked Washington's bought-and-paid-for-whores, the scum who comprise the Western news media: "How do you not understand that the world is being pulled in an irreversible direction toward nuclear war?"
As the US Marine Corps faces an unprecedented number of accidents, the military has turned to outside help to determine the cause.
At the initiative of Zbigniew Brzezi?ski and Polish figures who have already launched an "initiative for information warfare" against Russia at the heart of the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) in Washington, NATO has established a Centre for strategic communication in Latvia and the European Union should adopt a similar structure.
The idea is to centralize all media manipulation efforts thus far divided into fields of psychological warfare, propaganda etc.
The initial program was entirely directed against Russia.
Bush's poodle subordinated British sovereignty – and precipitated a disaster
War always starts unexpectedly. Deepest dreams occur before dawn. People cannot believe that their peaceful lives are over. On June 21, 1941 the Soviet nation was more sure than ever that war wouldn't happen. It was clear to everyone that sooner or later they would have to fight the fascist beast, but not today. Not tomorrow. German troops along our borders were just training. The main thing was not to panic and respond to provocations. Knowing the inevitable, a human heart desperately clings to the hope that the storm will pass. The enemy always takes advantage of this, attacking when least expected.
Qassem Hashem on Wednesday, the Israeli troops snatched his goats and relocated them to the Israeli-occupied section of the Shebaa Farms.
UN peacekeepers and Lebanese troops are currently trying to retrieve the stolen livestock.
"Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of taking up Arms" written July 6, 1775, was a declaration by the Representatives of the United Colonies of North-America setting forth the causes and necessity of their taking up arms.
Based on this document compared with our situation in the United States today, how close are we to the situation that our forefathers had when they declared they were taking arms?
Four basic reasons given for taking arms against the King of England.
1. The Legislature must show "an inordinate passion" for unjustifiable power that is rejected by the constitution.
2. The people are not successful in legal contests against the Government in regards to truth and laws.
3. Our politicians and leaders, can't be chosen by the people (ie. no vote or fixed voting), are exempt from the laws and are not subject to the people's control.
4. The people have to have tried peaceful means of changing the government for at least ten years without results.
A certain litany of comments and even vocabulary seems to be required after terrorist incidents. High-casualty attacks are "horrific," certain methods of attack are said to be the "hallmark" of certain groups, and so forth. And with any set of incidents occurring within a short time, explanations are offered that assume a connection among the incidents, especially in terms of a presumed careful strategy being executed by a particular group.
In explaining Donald Trump and the train wreck of the Republican Party, neoconservative contempt has targeted cultural rot, immigrant haters, and according to the the National Review, prescription drug addicted hillbillies. These poor, dumb racists have latched on to a celebrity shyster who has no conservative principles and worst of all, no understanding of international affairs.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair should have "abstained" from invading Iraq by "all means", focusing instead on "justified and legal" military action in Afghanistan, Scotland's former first minister Alex Salmond told RT.
U.S. intelligence veterans are calling on German Chancellor Merkel to bring a needed dose of realism and restraint to the upcoming NATO conference, which risks escalating the dangerous new Cold War with Russia.
Eager to hold the political "center," Hillary Clinton has budged little on Bernie Sanders's policy proposals beyond nice-sounding platitudes, a strategy that could lead to clashes at the Democratic convention, says Lawrence Davidson.
Hillary Clinton has pursued the presidency for almost a decade with a tenacious determination. She almost achieved the nomination in 2008 only to lose to Barack Obama. That led to an eight-year stifling of this ambition.
Finally, in the long run-up to the 2016 election, she was convinced the nomination was hers.
The much-edited Chilcot Report finally arrived and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has issued a pretty-sounding apology for his party's decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003. He called it the most serious foreign policy calamity of the last 60 years and "a stain on our party and country".
It's unfortunate that he dignifies the evil Iraq war conspiracy by suggesting it had anything to do with policy of the British people. It was a private venture, pledged in secret, by a Labour prime minister and his closest henchmen, and backed by the Cabinet.
First and foremost it was not so much a foreign policy disaster as a flat-out war crime for which Blair as chief perpetrator must be tried. And so must his Cabinet, who carry collective responsibility.
There will be mega-trouble if heads don't roll.
Although Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner recently signed a bill into law allowing patients suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to participate in the state's medical marijuana program, reports indicate that the brass overseeing Veterans Affairs Hospitals throughout the state will not allow any of its physicians to discuss the herb with patients suffering from this disorder.
Last week, just days after a Cook County Judge ordered the state to include PTSD as a qualified condition under the state's medical marijuana program, Governor Rauner swooped in and put his signature on a bill, which received overwhelming support this year in the General Assembly, expanding the Illinois medical marijuana pilot program to allow patients with PTSD and terminal illnesses to purchase cannabis from their friendly neighborhood dispensary. Rauner's signature also guarantees the program will continue to function until at least 2020.
This is, indeed, a testament to just how firmly the pharmaceutical-industrial complex has their claws firmly gripping the really sensitive areas of the Federal Government's "tender regions".
It's all about the money.
What the Pharmaceutical industry should do is is invest in creating some better pot, to get a decent market share of the business, instead of preventing people desperately in need of the plant's benefits from getting it.
This move, on the part of the VA, is making itself, and Big Pharma look collectively like the nether end of a donkey.
Countless foreign-born US veterans were deported after the federal government failed to assist in their naturalisation process, a new report by the American Civil Liberties Union said.
According to the report, many of the soldiers, whose service dated back to the Vietnam War, were deported after facing charges for minor misdemeanors – which can be deportable offences – and courts were not allowed to consider military service.
"By requiring deportation and stripping immigration courts of the power to consider military service, the United States government abandons these veterans by expelling them to foreign countries at the moment when they most need the government's help to rehabilitate their lives after service," Bardis Vakili, a senior staff attorney with the ACLU of California, said in a press release. "This is a tragic and disgraceful example of how broken our immigration system is."
This, I can absolutely get on board with.
I hate wars; but our Veterans, no matter where they came from, who have fought in service to the US government deserve the process of naturalisation, and for it to go swiftly and smoothly, particularly those who have volunteered.
Before the signing of the Iran nuclear deal last year, BBC's defense correspondent, Mark Urban, published a report [1] that Pakistan's military has made a clandestine deal with Saudi Arabia that in the event of Iran developing a nuclear weapon, Pakistan would provide ready-made nuclear warheads along with delivery systems to Saudi Arabia.
Footage from a drone details the aftermath of a double bombing which killed at least 215 people in Baghdad, Iraq.
A major NATO summit is set to begin later this week in Warsaw, and while the plan was to spend the whole time harping on about "Russian aggression" and making more plans to add more ground troops to the Baltic states.
Then the Brexit happened, and as with everyone else, that's all a lot of summit goers want to talk about these days. Britain's referendum was on leaving the EU, and not NATO, but that doesn't mean a lot of officials aren't predicting the move weakening the alliance, at least so far as joint NATO-EU operations go.
But with constant predictions from US officials of an imminent Russian invasion of Eastern Europe never panning out, the Obama Administration and other hawks on the Russia issue are looking to shift the focus of the summit back.
Forgive me, please, but has NATO Secretary-General Stollenberg lost his reality licence?!?
What possible evidence does he have of a potential Russian invasion of Eastern Europe?!? What are the facts here?!?
I frankly think that the people of the countries supporting NATO with their tax dollars deserve a detailed explanation of Stollenberg's stance here, and what evidence he can point to to justify his thinking.
Because right now, he has a very skeptical US and Europe looking at this statement, and wondering if the man has, in fact, lost his mind, to be saying this.
Two weeks before he hopes to consolidate his party at the Republican convention in Cleveland, Donald Trump is driving Republican foreign policy elites into the arms of Hillary Clinton, as several more Reagan and Bush administration veterans say they not only oppose Trump but will likely vote for Clinton this fall.
Two former senior officials from the George W. Bush administration tell POLITICO that they will cast a ballot for Clinton over Trump. They are Stephen Krasner, a Stanford University professor who served as the State Department's director of policy planning from 2005 to 2007, and David Gordon, a senior advisor at the Eurasia Group who was Krasner's successor in that post, which
All this simply proves that Clinton is a US warmonger's, and "Israel Firster's" wet dream, who will wreak havoc on this country, and the world.
And the fact that someone was a Bush administration "advisor" doesn't speak well for their common sense, or judgement, looking at the horrific decisions they made, which have put this country into a state of perpetual war.
And, just for giggles and grins, how many of these people who see Clinton as this country's "savior" have huge investments in the military industrial complex?!?
Full disclosure, guys, let's see it!!
The legal basis for Tony Blair's decision to go to war with Iraq in 2003 was "far from satisfactory," according to the findings of the highly anticipated Chilcot Report.
It took seven years for Sir Chilcot and his team to reach a set of conclusions that every Brit capable of thought understood back in November, 2013.
The inquiry produced a damning assessment of Blair's conduct as well as the British military. But the Chilcot Inquiry failed to expose the crucial close ties between Blair's criminal war, the Jewish Lobby and Israel.
At the time Britain entered the criminal war against Iraq, Blair's chief funders were Lord 'cashpoint' Levy and the LFI (Labour Friends of Israel). The prime advocates for the immoral interventionist war within the British press were Jewish Chronicle writers David Aaronovitch and Nick Cohen. The attorney general that gave the green light for the war was Lord Goldsmith.
War games and nuclear policy perpetuated by the Obama administration are "fueling growing tensions" with Russia and putting the world at risk of a nuclear war, according to an official nonpartisan organization consisting of 1,407 mayors and other leaders of cities with 30,000 or more inhabitants.
In a unanimous decision at their 84th annual conference, the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) passed a resolution condemning President Barack Obama's decision to set the U.S. on track to spend $1 trillion over the next 30 years to "maintain and modernize its nuclear bombs and warheads, production facilities, delivery systems, and command and control."
"The Obama administration has […] reduced the US nuclear stockpile less than any post-Cold War presidency," the resolution, passed in Indianapolis on June 27, reads.
Majority mood of citizens against joining the North Atlantic military alliance, our duty is to enable citizens to express their opinion, stated the Montenegrin opposition.
I believe that the purpose of this meeting was preventing an outbreak of war. The Ukrainian army will begin an offensive when such will be profitable for Kiev and Washington, and no official statements by Russian or European diplomats will stop it.
The Intercept published an article which reveals the e-mails of the former commander of NATO forces in Europe in which he discussed strategic issues with influential US politicians. The now retired general allegedly planned to by any means get around the reluctance of Obama to heighten military tensions with Russia over the war in Ukraine. Based on the published materials, it is clear that Breedlove discussed pressuring Obama on the issue of Ukraine with Victoria Nuland, Colin Paul, Wesley Clark, as well as with some analysts, including Harlan Ullman (a Senior Adviser at the Atlantic Council), Natalie Crawford (a senior fellow and Distinguished Chair in Air and Space Policy at the RAND Corporation), and Dr. Phillip A. Karber (President of the Potomac Foundation). Thus the revealed network of warmongers comprises US military circles, neocons, the Atlantic Council, the RAND corporation and The Potomac Foundation. The latter is the enterprise of Dr. Phillip A.
Nothing exposes the fraud of so-called "peace candidate" Barack Obama more than his handling of the illegal government propaganda campaign and eventual war on Iraq. As the UK reads and debates the Chilcot report investigating the Blair government's role in lying that country into the war, there is no notice in the US that Obama announced before taking office in late 2008 there would be no similar investigation in the US.
It was of course George Bush and his neocons from the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) gang that seized on the September 11, 2001 attacks to manipulate events into an opportunity to wage offensive war on Iraq. And it was the Democrats in the U.S. Senate, led by Clinton, Kerry, Biden et. al., who provided the votes a year after 9/11 that green-lighted the war.
UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has accused former prime minister Tony Blair of misleading MPs over the rationale for the invasion of Iraq.
I don't know if or when Putin will release those emails. How ever if I were him I would think this,"How do you blackmail an insane person drunk with power." You can't! Hillary is a loose cannon. She has gotten away with this email thing for now. Releasing more emails after she becomes president wont stop this looney. Putin I don't think can take that chance.
The United States and Georgia have inked an agreement to boost security and defense cooperation between the two countries.
Don't these nations signing military deals with the US or joining NATO understand they are opening the door to a new world war fought on their front lawns?!?
In the wake of the deadliest terrorist attack in Iraq since 2003, Iraq's prime minister Haider al-Abadi has instructed all the country's security forces – the federal and local police and the army — to stop using fake bomb detectors at the hundreds of security checkpoints across the country. The Independent reports that al-Abadi also ordered an investigation at the Ministry of the Interior into "corrupt deals" to buy the fake bomb detectors, known as ADE 651.
The countless billions of dollars poured into the War on Drugs has resulted in mass incarceration, corruption, political destabilization, violence, the rise of drug cartels, and systemic human rights abuses around the world. The one thing the War on Drugs hasn't done is stopped people from using drugs. The animated video series, Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell, explains why the problems associated with drug use are caused by the war against them.
We in the alternative media reported over and over and over and over and over and over that all of the insiders knew that Iraq didn't have weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).
Today's Chilcot Report doesn't add anything new.
Craig Murray – former British ambassador to Uzbekistan and Rector (i.e. president) of the University of Dundee – explains why:
Do not expect a full truth and a full accounting from the Chilcot panel of establishment trusties today. Remember who they are.
Chilcot tells us what we knew but at much greater length with lots of gaps in it
"Tony Blair has to answer for his actions, whether it is in a court of war here or in The Hague. He can't just walk away and say sorry [...] and go off to his merry life and all his millions. No. In my opinion he should be in the Hague, on war crimes [charges]."
The fact is, there is already enough information in the public domain to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Tony Blair lied in the run up to the war, that the war was illegal and that it did catastrophic damage not just to Middle East but to global stability.
I note that the foreign press is reporting that the Chilcot report does suggest Tony Blair fabricated much of the claims used to sell the war while the American corporate media continues to use the phrase "flawed intelligence." The reason is obvious. George W. Bush was party to those very same lies. And the government doesn't want you knowing that you are lied into wars because more wars based on more lies are coming!
Blair denies making a decision on Iraq at Crawford in Texas at a meeting with President Bush, and pushed "a reluctant US administration" to comply with the UN.
The report says then-Prime Minister Tony Blair deliberately exaggerated the threat posed by the Iraqi regime as he sought to make the case for military action to MPs and the public. Blair had disregarded warnings about the potential consequences of military action and relied too heavily on his own beliefs, Chilcot says.
In July 2002, well over six months before the invasion of Iraq, Blair wrote to then-US President George Bush promising him that the UK would be there with him "whatever," Chilcot says.
Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain went to war alongside the United States in Iraq in 2003 on the basis of flawed intelligence that went unchallenged, a shaky legal rationale, inadequate preparation and exaggerated public statements, an independent inquiry into the war concluded in a report published on Wednesday.
The corporate media is declaring the Chilcot report "devastating" but it is in fact another whitewash. This article echoes the claim of "flawed intelligence" but as the Downing Street Memo and Blair's "Dodgy Dossier" prove, there was a deliberate intention to deceive the people of the US and UK with the fiction of nuclear weapons, in order to invade Iraq for purely economic reasons.
Tony Blair's government made up its mind to take Britain into the U.S.-led war in Iraq before all peaceful options had been exhausted, and based the decision on "flawed intelligence," according to the long-awaited Chilcot Report released on Wednesday.
The Chilcot report is a whitewash. There was no flawed intelligence. There was flat-out lying.
In it, report author Sir John Chilcot criticised Tony Blair - the Prime Minister in 2003 who presented the case for war and led the invasion - for committing to backing US counterpart George W Bush over Iraq.
It also criticised Government ministers' justification for, planning and conduct of a military intervention which "went badly wrong, with consequences to this day".
Several military operations were described in the report as "hastily prepared" and led to equipment shortages for British personnel - an issue which several victims' families have long campaigned over.
It has been seven years in the making, but the results of the inquiry into Britain's invasion of Iraq in 2003 will finally be unveiled today.
Thirteen years after British troops crossed into Iraq, Sir John Chilcot will deliver his verdict on the UK's most controversial military engagement of the post-war era - and he has warned the Government, army and intelligence service to expect criticism.
The report, believed to have cost around £10million to produce, is published amid calls for former prime minister Tony Blair to be held to account for 'misleading the public and Parliament' when taking the UK into the conflict.
There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.
With the Chilcot report finally out, it is worth recalling all the lies used to sell us war with Iraq.
The controversial proposal would see development funds used for armies The plan, which would see the security forces of unsettled countries funded by the EU's development fund, has been sharply criticised after it was put forward by the European Commission last week. Delegate Reinhad Bütikofer blasted the EU for working on the project "clandestinely without any public debate."
On the eve of the release of the Chilcot Report, Lord Admiral West, former Commander-in-Chief of Fleet of the British Royal Navy in the lead up to the Iraq war, revealed to Channel 4 News that in July 2002, a full eight months before British Parliamentary approval for the invasion of Iraq, he was told "by someone very high up...that we would be invading Iraq".
"You don't wake up in your bath in the morning and say let's get ready for war. Someone told me. I know someone told me"
Lord West was not invited to give evidence to the Chilcot inquiry.
Imagine you are contacted by a recruiter and have been asked to go get an explosive belt from their agents. Then you are instructed to go to one of the most crowded places near you and kill as many people as you can before you detonate your vest. Yes while you are still wearing it.
Targeted killings or assassinations beyond the battlefield remain a highly charged subject. Most controversial of all is the number of civilians killed in US covert and clandestine drone strikes since 2002.
grossly overpaying propagandists to sell the war on Russia
One thing is clear, whether or not everyone will agree with what is said, Trump is at least speaking more directly than most politicians do
It turned out that Trump wasted no time in making sure that the people of America understood that what had been done in the UK can be done in the United States.
If Trump wants to put America first, he needs to start firing the Neoconservatives and their lackeys from the White House and putting them on trial for making Americans look really bad.
Rather than listening and learning and modifying their actions, the ruling elites stick to "more of the same." This process clearly emblematized by the endless procession of Bushes and Clintons replacing each other in the positions of power.
China's government sought to downplay fears of conflict in the South China Sea after an influential state-run newspaper said on Tuesday that Beijing should prepare for military confrontation in the area.
The joint editorials in the Chinese and English editions of the Global Times were published as tension mounted ahead of a July 12 ruling by an international court hearing competing claims of China and the Philippines in the South China Sea.
The newspaper said the dispute had already been complicated by U.S. intervention and now faced further escalation due to the threat posed by the tribunal to China's sovereignty.
"Washington has deployed two carrier battle groups around the South China Sea, and it wants to send a signal by flexing its muscles: As the biggest powerhouse in the region, it awaits China's obedience," the Global Times said.
It is is the US government, desperately attempting to goad China into military action, which is the ultimate culprit here.
And the reason?!? To prevent the rise in popularity of the Chinese currency, some of which is now gold-backed, and not convertible into US dollars.
These actions by the US military are counterproductive to a reasonable, lasting peace in the area.
Just because something is the most pig-headedly ham-fistedly stupid thing the US government can do, in a geopolitical confrontation, is absolutely no guarantee that it won't do it.
When President Obama apologised for the accidental 2015 killing of US aid worker Warren Weinstein, he revealed that the US had kept the target building under surveillance for "hundreds of hours" – yet had never known there were civilians inside. Many of the women and children credibly reported killed by the CIA in Pakistan have died in similar circumstances – though few of their deaths have ever been conceded.
Then there have been the more shocking tactics employed by the CIA. There was the deliberate targeting of funerals and rescuers, again first revealed by the Bureau. And the widespread use of so-called signature strikes during the Obama years – the targeting of suspects based not on their known identities, but on their behavioural patterns.
NO public US agency has the right to lie to either the American people or the world, in terms of the real scope and breadth of these numbers; and if the American people do not, peacefully, protest extrajudicial assassinations abroad out of existence, we may well see "justifications" for practicing the process at home right here in this country.
And one has to speculate; are the perpetual extrajudicial assassinations creating perpetual war from which the US government and military will never be able extricate themselves, and is this, possibly, the goal?!?
As reported at globalresearch.com today:
It was revealed by the Intercept through leaked US government documents that civilians may account for as much as 90% of all casualties from drone strikes. In its first article in a long series detailing America's drone operations titled, "The Assassination Complex," it reports: …documents detailing a special operations campaign in northeastern Afghanistan, Operation Haymaker, show that between January 2012 and February 2013, U.S. special operations airstrikes killed more than 200 people. Of those, only 35 were the intended targets. During one five-month period of the operation, according to the documents, nearly 90 percent of the people killed in airstrikes were not the intended targets. In Yemen and Somalia, where the U.S. has far more limited intelligence capabilities to confirm the people killed are the intended targets, the equivalent ratios may well be much worse. And upon viewing the leaked Operation Haymaker documents, it becomes clear that America's drone operations in Afghanistan have admittedly very little tactical value in eliminating specific "terrorists," and the actual "benefits" noted amid these operations is instead the perpetuation of terror, fear and sociopolitical division in targeted areas, including among civilian populations. Considering these noted "benefits," high civilian casualty rates of up to 90% makes sense. If the goal is to simply instill fear, it doesn't matter who dies, just as long as someone does. First Priority: Smashing Resistance, Not Stopping Terrorists It should be remembered that nations like Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan are home to fiercely independent networks of localized tribes. These tribes, particularly in Yemen or Afghanistan, refuse to recognize the authority of US-installed client governments and their existence not only undermines central government authority, they pose a direct threat to its continued existence. This helps explain another aspect of America's drone operations that have left the general public occasionally outraged but mostly confused. That is, the propensity of drones striking weddings. In Western culture, weddings are generally a family affair with little to do with the actual community they take place in. In traditional cultures like Yemen and Afghanistan, weddings are a central community affair. Beyond just friends and family, everyone from the community participates, with various local religious, educational, political and even military leaders attending or even presiding over the event. It is difficult to believe that drone operators would target a wedding even if a specific, high value terrorist target was present, understanding the full scope of collateral damage that would occur. In fact, in a 2013 speech at the National Defense University, US President Barack Obama would explicitly claim: And before any strike is taken, there must be near-certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured — the highest standard we can set. Considering this, it is likely such operations, certain to incur civilian deaths, are instead approved of for the specific purpose of obliterating the very source of a targeted community's strength and independence, leaving local people reeling, leaderless and at the mercy of the central government Washington has installed into power. In other words, the US is not necessarily "hunting terrorists," it is eliminating resistance to the political order it is attempting to reach into targeted nations with.
This is your government, gone completely mad, acting in your name and with your tax dollars, and completely unaccountable to We the People.
The implication from this escalation was clear, and this is how we concluded less than a month ago:
"while the US may be hoping to "check" the Russians, all this action which will be seen as the latest provocation by the Kremlin will do is further strain already chilly relations between Russia and the US.... We expect Russia to respond by promptly deploying warships of its own to the Mediterranean in a repeat of the summer of 2013 when the beach off the Syrian coast was a parking lot of Russian, US, European and even Chinese warships."
In last week's speech, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russian will adopt adequate measures to counter NATO's aggression. Putin also called for creation of an international security system open to all countries.
"Russia is ready to discuss this extremely important issue," he said, adding that such proposals have been so far left unanswered by Western countries.
At the upcoming Warsaw summit in July, NATO leaders are expected to green-light deployment of four battalions of up to 800 troops each to the Baltic States and Poland, along with intensifying the scale and pace of multinational military exercises. Recent live-fire drills, Anakonda 2016, Saber Strike and BALTOPS, involved thousands of troops and hundreds of combat vehicles to simulate large-scale operations in Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
It is, at this point, not a question of IF NATO is going to wage a war against Russia, but WHEN.
You don't have the kind of continuous troop and equipment escalation on Russia's borders unless you mean to use it.
Alex Salmond has appeared to suggest the internal Labour party coup against Jeremy Corbyn is connected with the publication of the long-awaited Chilcot report into the Iraq war.
His comments come just three days before the publication of the inquiry into the 2003 Iraq war. Earlier reports have suggested Mr Blair, the former Prime Minister, and his contemporaries will be savaged in an "absolutely brutal" verdict.
In an article for the Herald, the former Scottish First Minister wrote: "It would be a mistake to believe that Chilcot and current events are entirely unconnected. The link is through the Labour Party"
According to advance leaks, Sir John will apportion the blame very widely with several dozen ministers, officials and military figures coming in for criticism.
These same reports also suggest a great deal of the report will concentrate on mistakes made during the occupation of Iraq rather than the decision to go to war in the first place.
If these leaks are true, they suggest that Sir John's report, like the whitewashed reports that have already been published, will lack focus.
There are in truth only a handful of crucial points it should address. Did Tony Blair lie in order to make the case for war? Was the war legal?
Did the war — as Tony Blair promised it would — make Britain a safer place?
FBI Director Comey beat Chilcot to the punch in proving our Democratic system is broken.
Daesh (ISIS) is gone from Palmyra, hopefully for good. But the area is still haunted. One imagines a long period of healing, cathartic reconstruction, restoration and healing will be required by its returning residents before this ancient town will feel cleansed of Daesh butchery, desecrations and filth.
The US drone strikes have accidentally killed up to 116 civilians in countries that the US is not at war with, the White House said.
I will tell you why I have written this article. I told a friend recently that I was going to give him a copy of my book, America's Oldest Professions: Warring and Spying. "Isn't war just human nature" he asked? Dear readers, what is your answer? Mine can be found in this article.
Hopefully, a result of the Brexit will be the breakup of the European Union and NATO
Britain's exit from the European Union (EU) could probably prevent the United States from launching World War III, says Dr. P C Roberts.
FIXED LINK! Sorry!
Good luck Mike and Claire!
"As a rule, our missiles were tested using Plesetsk — Kura trajectory or Baikonur — Kura. The range of such a flight does not exceed 7,000 kilometers, while many of our missiles on tactical and technical characteristics fly well over 12,000 kilometers. In this case, our military must fire from the north to the area near the Hawaiian Islands. The test is difficult, but it is necessary," Esin explained.
Two blasts have ripped through busy market areas in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killing at least 23 people and injuring 61 others.
Canada's warmongering Defence Minister, Harjit Sajjan, recently announced an increased Canadian presence in NATO, predicated on the narrative that Russia "annexed the Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine and backed pro-Russian separatist forces in that country's eastern region."
Presumably his "Assad must go" narrative about Syria is wearing thin. After all, NATO member Turkey is a training ground for ISIS, a transit point for terrorists entering Syria, and, like the Canadian government, all of NATO, the Gulf monarchies, Wahhabi Saudi Arabia, and apartheid Israel, a staunch supporter of the terrorists; plus, it has also been long established that there are no "moderates."
Presumably, too, Sajjan needs to rebrand and recycle the "threat" narrative, and the "NATO are the good guys" meme, so he is now reintroducing Russia as a threat.
So how is your war on "terrorism" going? I'm not doing too well at it since I have no idea who the enemy is. Like the American black comedian, Dick Gregory, who, on hearing that President Johnson had declared a war on poverty, ran out onto the street with a hand grenade to throw it at some poor people, I have no idea who the real enemy is, who to throw a grenade at. That makes me think.
President Barack Obama's administration claims 64 to 116 "non-combatants" have been killed by CIA or United States military drone strikes. The number is preposterously low, and the best evidence yet of how the government propagandizes the public into believing drones are "precise" and rarely kill anyone but targeted "terrorists."
The casualty counts, along with an executive order on "pre- and post-strike policies," were released right before Fourth of July weekend, a clear act aimed at ensuring the least amount of attention was given to the administration's latest effort to conceal the truth of who is killed by targeted assassinations.
A "summary of information" released by the Director for National Intelligence (DNI) maintains 473 strikes "against terrorist targets outside areas of active hostilities." It states somewhere between 2,372 and 2,581 "combatants" were killed.
The problem with the drone strikes is that it inspires others to join jihadist groups, and take deadly actions against Americans or American interests, so one has to wonder; is this the way in which the White House hopes to keep this country at perpetual war?!?
And the fact that the White House lied to the American people, and the world, about these numbers, is the new normal for this administration; one can no longer believe anything anyone attached to it says, ever.
Former president of Poland Lech Walesa said that US Navy should have shot down Russian Su-24 fighters that came within 30 feet of the missile destroyer Donald Cook in the Baltic sea in order to identify the ship.
According to Walesa, such actions on the part of Russia cannot be tolerated.
Okay, Lech, if you really feel that way ... Here's your rifle. Here's your parachute. We ran out of the camouflage BDUs so here is a bright da-glo jumpsuit left over from the CIA torture centers. Watch your head climbing into that transport aircraft, and we will call Putin and tell him you are on your way to kick his butt all by yourself!
The Russians have every right to be curious when warships are cruising just outside their borders. It's not like the Russians overflew the USS Donald in the Gulf of Mexico, and the Black Sea is international waters. Russia has as much right to be there as the US, in fact even more so under the Montreaux Convention! The US and Europe are massing forces at Russia's border, and now we have those leaked emails in which the former head of NATO tried to start a war with Russia. Yet the official story remains that this is all somehow Russia's fault; that Russia is the aggressor.
The Russians have every right to be curious when warships are cruising just outside their borders. It's not like the Russians overflew the USS Donald in the Gulf of Mexico, and the Black Sea is international waters. Russia has as much right to be there as the US, in fact even more so under the Montreaux Convention! The US and Europe are massing forces at Russia's border, and now we have those leaked emails in which the former head of NATO tried to start a war with Russia. Yet the official story remains that this is all somehow Russia's fault; that Russia is the aggressor.
At least 60 people were killed early Sunday in a car bomb blast claimed by the Daesh terrorist group in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
The bomb hit Al-Karada, a busy shopping district in central Baghdad, at 01:00 a.m. local time (2200GMT), a security source told Anadolu Agency, requesting anonymity due to restrictions on speaking with the media.
The bombing left 60 people dead and at least 100 others injured
(*AMAZING! Didn't 'A Certain Victim Of Circumstances' meet with the FBI yesterday ?)
An exclusive interview with Dr. Alan Sabrosky
Q. Does a US-inspired NATO-generated Cold War climate already exist?
A. Not yet, but it is heading that way. Watch for it to intensify under Clinton, and to ameliorate under Trump.
A series which took the Internet by storm of people you will recognise from Politicians, Journalists, Authors, Actors, Musicians and many more speaking the truth about Zionism.
"Syrian Troops Looting Ancient City Of Palmyra, Says Archaeologist."
So shouted the highly respected UK Guardian's headline of June 1, 2016 on the eve of the opening day of this month's two-day Berlin Convergence attended by more than 170 scientists, archaeologists, architects and planners. The gathering of experts was convened to discuss how best to preserve Syria's, and our heritage, despite the five-year-old war that has killed more than 280,000 people and has also resulted in serious damage to our globally shared Cultural Heritage.
While this weapon system is still currently "under the radar" (no pun intended…) of the Western media, one can rest assured that once it starts flight tests in earnest, it will be paraded as Exhibit A in the propaganda indictment of "Russian aggression." Therefore it might be worthwhile to pre-empt the usual media barrage by placing a spotlight on what promises to be a revolutionary weapon system capable of changing the global balance of power.
Hacked private emails of the US general formerly in charge of NATO reveal a campaign to pressure the White House into escalating the conflict with Russia over Ukraine, involving several influential players in Washington.
The emails, posted by the site DCLeaks, show correspondence between General Philip M. Breedlove, former head of the US European Command and supreme commander of NATO forces, with several establishment insiders concerning the situation in Ukraine following the February 2014 coup that ousted the elected government in favor of a US-backed regime.
Breedlove served as the NATO Supreme Commander between May 2013 and March 2016. His personal email incorporated his Air Force call sign "Bwana" – a Swahili word for "boss."
A dramatic attempt to impeach Tony Blair for misleading Parliament over the Iraq war could be launched in the wake of the long-awaited Chilcot report into the conflict.
MPs have begun to build support for an attempted prosecution of the former Labour Prime Minister after the 2.6million-word report is published on Wednesday.
A cross-party group is considering using an ancient Parliamentary mechanism to bring him to trial in Westminster.
I hope it involves hanging, drawing, and quartering!
Cold War Climate to intensify under Clinton, and to ameliorate under Trump.
Q. As an American, Alan, how can you be enthusiastic about America's choices of US Presidential candidates in 2016?
After Kennedy was murdered they got rid of General Shoup. One of the greatest US Marines in the history of the Corps.
It has been said that "Old men start wars and young men fight them." To the extent that foreign policies are developed by politicians and then enforced by men and women of the military this is certainly true.
Such dissent is not specific to the young; in every war a small minority in older generations has risen in opposition to war as well.
"I believe that if we had and would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-crocked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own. That they design and want. That they fight and work for."
The US will suffer the "gravest consequences" if Boston marathon Dzokhar Tsarnaev or any other Muslim prisoners are executed, Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri warned in a video message.
One hundred years ago today—on July 1, 1916—thousands of young men died after older men decided, again, to send them to war. On the first day of the Battle of the Somme, the British army suffered 57,470 casualties, of which 19,240 were deaths, the French had 1,590 casualties, and the Germans had over 10,000. It was the single greatest day for casualties in British military history. By the time the Battle of the Somme ended in November, the British had around 420,000 casualties, the French about 200,000, and the Germans about 500,000.
President Barack Obama is expected to announce the number of civilians killed by "illegal" US drone strikes Friday, but only in countries where the world's biggest military hasn't officially declared war.
Transgender people will be allowed to serve openly in the U.S. military, the Pentagon announced Thursday, ending one of the last bans on service in the armed forces.
At least 41 people were killed in the recent bombing of Istanbul's
Ataturk Airport.
The day before, suicide bombers killed five people in Qaa, a small
village in Lebanon. And while the Saudi-led and U.S.-backed war in
Yemen continues
to rage, an ISIS affiliate claimed responsibility for attacks
in the Yemeni port city of Mukalla that killed at least 12.
e US Department of Defence and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have signed an agreement regarding the continued American military presence in Iceland.
The agreement, posted on the official site of Iceland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, reaffirms a number of existing points regarding joint efforts between the US and Iceland to defend the island nation that were established in the 1951 Defence Agreement and the 2006 Joint Understanding. The latter agreement was ratified in the wake of the NATO base in Keflavík drastically scaling down operations.
This is not about the "....defense of Iceland by military means...."
Let's look at a map, shall we?!?
Map of Iceland and surrounding countries
This appears to be a prepositioning of American military hardware in advance of a war against Russia.
Although a NATO member, Iceland does not have a standing military.
In an historic and controversial move, the Pentagon on Thursday lifted its longstanding ban on transgender troops and began outlining how the military will begin allowing — and paying for — service members to transition, medically and officially, from one gender to another.
Pentagon to use tax dollars to pay for breast jobs and plastic surgery for trans troops
Few books have as misleading a title as Hard Choices. For Hillary Clinton, as this tedious memoir of her years as Secretary of State makes evident, there are no hard choices. The Solutions to all political and economic problems are easy. We must always rely on the directing hand of government, guided by the superior wisdom of our moral and intellectual betters, Hillary Clinton foremost among them.
President Barack Obama is expected to announce the number of civilians killed by "illegal" US drone strikes Friday, but only in countries where the world's biggest military hasn't officially declared war.
Several news outlets reported, citing leaks from US officials, that the number is expected to be just 100, a tiny fraction of those estimated by investigative journalists and human rights groups who track the "violations of international law."
The White House will only reveal civilian casualties in countries that are technically not at a US battlefield, like Libya, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen.
Those killed by US drone strikes in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria will not be featured in the total. The US has deployed thousands of drones in these countries.
This is somewhat akin to touching up an x-ray when someone has cancer, and making it appear, cosmetically, as "not that big a deal."
But ALL extrajudicial assassinations ARE...a big deal, and have absolutely no place in American jurisprudence, period, end of discussion.
And the only thing these murders do is create a willingness in more people to commit jihad against Americans, or American interests; or has that been the plan all along, in order to groom Americans for perpetual war?!?
This totally out-of-control government has lost its ability to rationally, reasonably negotiate in good faith and create win/win treaties. When a kid has a hammer, everything becomes a nail, to be hammered; but instead of a hammer, what the US government has are drone planes, which drop bombs, and murder, with absolutely zero due process.
I won't even bother reading the report; everything this administration says is a complete, utter lie, and this will be no different.
Deeply affected by the death of my two uncles in World War II, on 1 July 1966, the 24th anniversary of the USS Sturgeon sinking of the Japanese prisoner-of-war ship Montevideo Maru which killed the man after whom I am named, I decided that I would devote my life to working out why human beings are violent and then developing a strategy to end it.
They said it couldn't be done.
They said a man couldn't turn into a woman, then fight in front line combat as a woman, or as a man, or as a man-woman.
Well, we showed them, trans man-womans or women-mans can now serve openly in the military -- and our country is stronger and better off for it -- thanks Obama!
Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, here I am...
A political beacon is about to be extinguished unless he breaks with the doomed Labour Party and sets up on his own
Well I don't know why I came here tonight
I got the feeling that something ain't right,
I'm so scared in case I fall off my chair,
And I'm wondering how I'll get down the stairs,
Clowns to the left of me,
Jokers to the right, here I am,
Stuck in the middle with you.
Yes I'm stuck in the middle with you,
And I'm wondering what it is I should do,
It's so hard to keep this smile from my face,
Losing control, yeah, I'm all over the place,
Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right…
— Lyrics from 'Stuck in the Middle with You'
Brexit is a game-changing event. Now Euro-sceptics all over Europe has got fresh wind in their sails.
Few people expected the positive outcome of Brexit referendum. Among other doubters, I expected the UK government will borrow a trick from the Clinton collection, and proclaim the "Bremain" hath it.
The political establishment of both leading parties, the Tories and Labour, wished to remain in the cosy lap of the EC. This was the will of the Bank of England, and of the City of London; of the powerful media lords, of the creative minority of yuppies, of cosmopolitan intellectuals.
Britain's exit from EU deals a body blow to the US' trans-Atlantic leadership.
The unthinkable has happened with the United Kingdom voting to leave the European Union. (BBC)
Arguably, this is potentially the most serious development in world politics since the collapse of the Soviet Union. (Curiously, both catastrophes happened 'voluntarily'.)
What lies ahead?
What you are seeing with the Brexit is the result of the Obama administrations pro-war, new Cold War policy.
With us to discuss the economic and political context of the Brexit is Michael Hudson. He is a research professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and author of Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Destroy the Global Economy. Also, he is an economics adviser to several governments.
No-one seems to comprehend the consequences of the British decision to leave the European Union.
While the veil is being ripped apart before our eyes, our elites do not understand the situation any better than the Communist Party of Soviet Russia could see the consequences of the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 – the dissolution of the USSR in December 1991.
In identical fashion, we will soon be witnessing the dissolution of the European Union, then NATO, and unless they pay close attention, the dismantling of the United States.
The title underscores a common torment that permeates much of this book. All three of these gifted writers are exiles from their homeland, and whether they speak of love, loss, anger, heartache, resolve, despair, triumph, tragedy, or even the banal, there is often an undercurrent of an exile's longing for home, tinged with the combined anguish and guilt of being spared the fate of that home.
The Pentagon will let transgender individuals serve openly in the U.S. military, ending one of the last bans on service in the armed forces.
US Air Force Colonel Eugene Caughey faces a court-martial for rape, assault and adultery with half a dozen women. But his lawyers argue the charges should be dropped, because the military's law banning extramarital sex discriminates against heterosexuals.
A recent Pew Research report suggests that the sun may be setting on America's international hegemony. People polled around the world favor Russian President Vladimir Putin over a leading US presidential candidate for the first time, and a growing number of the world's inhabitants now have a negative view of Washington's economic and political influence.
It turns out that one of Hillary Clinton's closest confidants was working for an organization that the government wanted to put on a list of terrorist funders.
According to Breitbart, Abedin was working in the London offices of the The Institute for Muslim Minority Affairs and the Journal for Muslim Minority Affairs — publications one writer called "the Abedin family business." Huma worked in the offices as the assistant editor of the JMMA.
Neither oil nor currency issues were discussed at the SASC hearing, where Lt. Gen. Waldhauser assured South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham that he would expand the so-called War on Terror in Africa and seek the authority to assassinate without presidential approval:
At least 36 people were killed and many others were wounded in a suicide bomb and gun attack on Istanbul's Atatürk Airport late on June 28, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Y?ld?r?m said in a press briefing at the crime scene, adding that findings suggested that Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was responsible.
Countless amounts of academics, presidents and other politicians have told humanity that a secret government is really pulling the strings when it comes to who holds the balance of power on our planet. Multiple studies have emerged showing that a very small group of people and the corporations they run basically have control over all of the worlds resources. According to the estimates of some, the US government alone classifies up to 500 million pages of documents every single year, for the purpose of protecting 'national security.' Our world is drenched in secrecy, and it's reached a point where we don't really know what's happening on our planet. Our main source of information is corporate media, this is a big problem
As swimmers know, moving cleanly through the water can be a problem due o the huge amounts of drag created – and for submarines, this is even more of a problem. However, US Navy funded researchers say they have a simple solution – a bubble. Researchers at Penn State Applied Research Laboratory are developing a new system using a technique called supercavitation.
South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy claims his Democratic colleagues will be "shocked" if they choose to read an 800-page report about the 2012 terrorist attacks in Libya released Tuesday by the House Select Committee on Benghazi.
"We mention Sec. [Hillary] Clinton's name less times than the Democrats do despite the fact that our report is twice as long," Gowdy, chairman of the committee, told MSNBC. In a separate report released Monday, Democratic members of the committee described Gowdy as an "overzealous prosecutor desperately trying to land a front-page conviction."
Gowdy dismissed that portrayal on Tuesday morning. "I would ask you and all my fellow citizens, put aside what the Democrats say the report's going to be like — it's actually out."
"Read it for yourself and read all of the new information that we found and what our focus is on," he said. "It is not on one person it is on four people whose political affiliations I have no idea what they are."
Global warming, mass shootings, global instability and overpopulation are all concerns humanity faces, but what is the greatest risk to all of us?
If anyone wants a short course on what's wrong with US diplomacy look no further than US Ambassador to Hungary Coleen Bell's speech Friday to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Hungarian Parliament. In typical diplo-speak there was plenty of flowery language about shared values, fish swimming together in the same water (?), sappy poetics like "together, out of that winter, we would force the spring," and talk of together being "part of the world's greatest military and political alliance."
But make no mistake: Inside Ambassador Bell's velvet glove is an iron fist, poised to strike should Washington's annoyingly independent-minded Fidesz-led government step out of line on the big issues. And by "big" issues it should be understood that the US means the issues it considers in the interests of its own foreign policy, not those in Hungary's interest.
Message to Hungary: do as we say or you will be sorry.
America's announcement that Russia has committed 'aggression' against America, is an announcement that America is at war against Russia; and here is how America's 'news' media have said that it's the case — that Russia has aggressed — even as the U.S. government is still only preparing to attack Russia, and isn't yet ready actually to invade that country.
NATO has increased its presence in Eastern Europe 13 times for the latest years. In order to stop Russia's revival, the US unwinds military conflicts plots at every possible way.
Colonel General Leonid Ivashov, President of the International Centre of Geopolitical Analysis explained in an interview to KP, that 'if data on Russia-NATO power balance at the Western direction is analyzed, as well as military activity build-up rate at our borders, scale of combat equipment deployment, if the grade of Russia's demonization is estimated, one can say that preparation to a real war is taking place. As such acts are usually undertaken at the forefront of a war.'
What we are talking about, in that last paragraph, is the creation of a "false flag operation", in which huge numbers are hurt, and much of the landscape where the attacks have happened has been been burnt to cinders, to blame on Russia as the "justification" for going to war against it.
I would very strongly caution those residents of "foggy bottom" who believe that this, under any circumstance would be a "good idea", that such a war would create complete, global devastation.
And I say this, because at this point in time, the US military doesn't have the weaponry, the money, the troop strength, or the manufacturing to insure a positive outcome to a conventional war against Russia; so, most likely, such a war will go nuclear.
Please, to our leadership in the White House, Congress, State Department, and Pentagon: be careful what you wish for; the outcome of such a war could be both catastrophic....and irreversible.
There appears to be something about launching bombs or missiles from afar onto cities and people that appeals to American military and political leaders. In part it has to do with a conscious desire to not risk American lives in ground combat. And in part, perhaps not entirely conscious, it has to do with not wishing to look upon the gory remains of the victims, allowing American GIs and TV viewers at home to cling to their warm fuzzy feelings about themselves, their government, and their marvelous "family values". Washington officials are careful to distinguish between the explosives the US drops from the sky and "weapons of mass destruction" (WMD), which only the officially-designated enemies (ODE) are depraved enough to use.
The US government speaks sternly of WMD, defining them as nuclear, chemical and biological in nature, and "indiscriminate" (meaning their use can't be limited to military objectives), as opposed to the likes of American "precision" cruise missiles.
By Timothy J. Jorgensen, Georgetown University
In 1946, French fashion designer Jacques Heim released a woman's swimsuit he called the "Atome" (French for "atom") – a name selected to suggest its design would be as shocking to people that summer as the atomic bombings of Japan had been the summer before.
Not to be outdone, competitor Louis Réard raised the stakes, quickly releasing an even more skimpy swimsuit. The Vatican found Réard's swimsuit more than shocking, declaring it to actually be "sinful." So what did Réard consider an appropriate name for his creation? He called it the "Bikini" – a name meant to shock people even more than "Atome." But why was this name so shocking?
Taiwan plans to test-fire its newest anti-missile system for the first time in the United States next month as relations with rival China deteriorate, a defence source and media reports said Monday.
Relations between China and Taiwan have cooled rapidly under the island's new Beijing-sceptic president Tsai Ing-wen, who took office in May, ending an eight-year rapprochement.
The test of the US-made Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) system will be launched at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, in early July, a defence ministry source told AFP, in a move likely to irk Beijing even though it was arranged before Tsai took the helm.
According to the source, the test will be conducted in the US to avoid China collecting information about it, and due to space restrictions in Taiwan.
The American Institute in Taiwan, the de facto US embassy, would not comment on the test, which was also reported in Taiwan's Liberty Times newspaper.
Oh, this is REALLY going to reduce tensions with China, right?!?
What the hell are these people, in the US and Taiwanese governments thinking?!?
Wouldn't it be rational to be speaking to China regarding trade and peace through commerce?!?
Oh, forgive me; rational thought- and the US government - have not had an ongoing relationship, it appears, for decades.
And the results of that not having the capacity to think a scenario through to its logical conclusion, collectively, have been horrific, US government-generated wars and occupations, covert and overt, which have left remarkable devastation around the world, but have only left the US government more broke than it was before those wars were started.
The US guided-missile destroyer Gravely breached international safety rules by coming withing dangerous proximity of the Yaroslav Mudry in the eastern Mediterranean, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
According to the statement, the warship's captain and crew violated the international Regulations for Preventing Collisions at sea (COLREGS) which govern the conduct of two or more vessels when they meet at sea in order to prevent dangerous situations.
I've done a bit of rag-setting myself, and the USS Gravely, in crossing in front of the Russian patrol ship, is violating the rules, and clearly trying to provoke the Russians.
A scandal has unfolded in Poland surrounding the so-called March of Ukrainians living in Poland that took place on June 26th and celebrated the Sich Riflemen in the Polish city of Przemysl. During the event, participants clashed with young Poles, 23 of whom were detained by the Polish police for "clarifying circumstances."
"THEY BLEW UP OUR RADIO STATION! No, wait, we already used that one."
Thirteen years of wars in the Middle East, since the illegal
and criminal invasion of Iraq by the United States and Britain in 2003, have killed way over a million people; destroyed Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Libya, and created millions of refugees.
A new Islamic State video is taunting those grieving after the Orlando mass shooting, celebrating the attack and calling for more like it in San Francisco and Las Vegas. This is the second video praising the Florida massacre – America's bloodiest so far.
Al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has published a guide urging jihadis to carry out more 'lone wolf' operations in the U.S. following the deadly terror attack in Orlando earlier this month and to set their sights on the targeting of white Americans.
The US military has tested an Israeli short-range missile for possible use in its European network of missile systems to deter Russia, says a US Army general.
Major General Glenn Bramhall of the US Army's Air and Missile Defense Command made the comments on Monday, as he visited the occupied Palestinian territories.
Bramhall said his units needed a reliable system to counter less powerful missile threats as a third tier beside the Army's array of midrange Patriot and THAAD missile systems.
"Patriot and THAAD are great systems that do what they were designed to do. But I don't think we would want to waste a Patriot or a THAAD missile on something that can be affected by something that's lower cost and is actually designed for that job itself," the general told Reuters.
For that purpose, he said the US military has test-launched a variant of the Israeli "Tamir" rocket which is incorporated to the Tel Aviv regime's so-called Iron Dome missile system.
WHAT Russian "...military buildup in Europe." ?!?!?!?
It has been the US and NATO which have been doing a huge military buildup on the borders with Russia, not the other way around.
Folks, we are being fed this codswallop to "groom" the American public toward accepting a shooting war against Russia; this is a war the US military may well not win, because the US military doesn't have the weaponry, the troop strength, the money, or the manufacturing to insure a positive outcome to a conventional war against Russia.
The weapons procurement system is nothing short of incestuous in this country, because those Congressional representatives who hand out contracts for weapons are, themselves, funded by those same weapons companies.
So the end of the day, most of what our military gets in terms of weaponry is frightfully over budget; obsolete even before it is field-deployed; and rarely functioning as they are supposed to function.
A brilliant example of this problem is the tale of the F-35, consistently embroiled in a string of terrible problems which appears to be never-ending. As reported by Claire Bernish at activistpost.com in February of this year:
As is typical for the Pentagon's continuous mismanagement of its enormous budget, the F-35 fighter program — with its $1.5 trillion cost to taxpayers so far — continues to be fraught with complications and failures. According to an 82-page report released Monday, myriad flaws still plague the Pentagon's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft, including an ejection system likely to break the necks of pilots under 136 pounds. "Testing showed that the ejection seat rotates backwards after ejection. This results in the pilot's neck becoming extended, as the head moves behind the shoulders in a 'chin up' position," the report states.
Forgive me, but did none of the engineers at Lockheed-Martin see this coming?!?
As those of you know who occasionally read my posts on this blog, I hate the concept of war as being the US government's answer to geopolitical disputes; but that having been said, should the US government go to war, I want our military to have the best of the best.
And because of the way our weapons procurement program is structured, getting weapons that work, and are delivered on time, and within budget, is just about as rare as is a unicorn.
A US destroyer violated international and bilateral agreements by approaching a Russian ship dangerously close this month, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement Tuesday.
Britain's stunning referendum vote to leave the European Union has thrown a cat among the pigeons, not least in Washington, where it is feared that the "Brexit" could scupper its anti-Russian policy.
That tacit policy is a foundation of the postwar international order whereby Washington – thanks to its trusty British acolyte – has been able to exert hegemony over Europe. Nearly seven decades of American transatlantic domination are at risk of crumbling.
The unscheduled, hasty visit by US Secretary of State John Kerry to Brussels followed by London on Monday is a sure sign that Washington is alarmed at the historic decision by the British electorate to quit the EU – after 43-year membership of the bloc.
"Kerry urges Britain, EU to manage their divorce responsibly," was how American news outlet ABC reported the diplomat's detour. The outlet went on to say with a pretense of chivalry that Kerry's concern was "for the sake of global markets and citizens".
The US Air Force is exploring replacements for the F-35 Martin-Baker ejection seat, citing revelations that the seat could endanger pilots, according to Defense News. This marks the latest setback for the F-35 fighter jet that has cost US taxpayers over $1.5 trillion.
The UK has sent one of its nuclear submarines to Gibraltar, amid a long-running territorial dispute with Spain that escalated after Britain's exit from the European Union (EU).
The HMS Ambush docked in Gibraltar on Saturday, only a day after Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo repeated Madrid's claim of sovereignty over the territory.
US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and his British counterpart Michael Fallon have discussed the UK's recent vote to leave the European Union (EU), downplaying the potential national security impacts of the decision on bilateral ties.
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UNION - The deaths of Michael and Alex Smith have inspired an anonymous giver to donate money toward establishing a scholarship fund in their memory at the local campus of the University of South Carolina. A similar, albeit larger contribution was made to USC's Institute for Families in Society, in Columbia, by Atlanta businessman Bob Thomas. But this donation is different. An unsigned note wrapped around a little less than $100 was handed to USCU Dean Jim Edwards this past week by a friend of the donor. Edwards said he has no idea who made the donation but he strongly believes it came from within the Union community. The note said a scholarship "could help some other young people to make something of their life to help make up for the loss of those two fine boys." Although the donation is relatively modest, Edwards said it signifies Union's thoughtfulness in times of need. Edwards hopes the initial donation will spark interest in others who wish to help the school. More than $25,000 would be needed to establish an endowment large enough to provide one full scholarship annually, he said. "If we are unable to offer a full scholarship, we will place the donation in our general fund and make a partial award to help with a deserving student's tuition," Edwards said. "Obviously, there could be no more appropriate way to memorialize Michael and Alex than to help educate the youth in the Union area." Edwards said no criteria has been established for the recipient, but he believes it will rest primarily on grades. To make a contribution or find out more about the Michael and Alex Smith Scholarship call 427-3681. USCU01
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Converting a path to a mask
Converting a path to a mask
In the previous exercise, I showed you how to convert a path to a selection outline. In this exercise, I am going to show you how to convert a path to a layer mask, a pixel based layer mask, that is to say, or a more flexible resolution independent vector mask. I am working inside of that same document, I opened in the previous exercise, it's called Ready to mask.psd found inside the 15_Paths folder. Notice that I am working inside the Paths palette; I have the free-form polygon path selected here. Now if I want to convert the path to a layer mask, I have to first convert the path to a selection outline. You do that, of course, by Ctrl+Clicking or Command+Clicking on that path thumbnail. Note, by the way, that the path doesn't have to be selected to take advantage of this technique. If the path is deselected, like so, I can still Ctrl+Click on it here on the PC or Command+Click on it on the Mac in order to invoke that selection outline. So an additional advantage to Ctrl or Comm...
Converting a path to a mask provides you with in-depth training on Design. Taught by Deke McClelland as part of the Photoshop CS3 Channels & Masks: Advanced Techniques
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Went today with our staff to Nikkellette's to celebrate a birthday lunch. The food was excellent as always. However, the service was horrible. We had a man for a waiter, terrible service. Next time will rethink for eating at Nikkellette's again. The horrible service outweighs the great food.
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I agree. The food is wonderful but the service is always poor. Very slow.
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The food is excellent. The service, however, is lacking. Never in my dining history have I seen so many slow, idiotic, incompetent servers. I'm a very patient person, but for it to take 5-6 minutes to be greeted is absurd. There is much more that I could list but we would be here for awhile. It takes awhile for food to come out, but that's understandable since everything is homemade. I highly suggest to whomever owns this restaurant to put your servers through a proper training class. I truly think this Cafe has so much potential, but a place cannot stand on fantastic food alone.
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Hampton Inn & Suites Hotel Opens in York
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YORK, PA—Hampton Hotels opened its newest property, the 100-room Hampton Inn & Suites York South located here. The hotel is owned and operated by Springwood Hospitality. It is the second Hampton property in the York area and the 63rd in the state.
"Hampton combines quality, innovation, comfort and plenty of value-added extras, making it the brand of choice in the marketplace today," stated Terri Elfner, general manager of the hotel. "Quality accommodations and amenities combined with proactive, friendly service from our team members—all backed by the 100% Hampton guarantee—make us highly competitive in the York area."
The hotel offers easy access to I-83 and is in close proximity to York College and the Penn State York Campus. Additionally, guests can enjoy activities at the Strand Capital Theater, York Expo Center and the Pullo Center.
Guestrooms are equipped with modern amenities designed to help guests feel at home and stay productive, refrigerators, 37-in. TV and clean and fresh Hampton bed. Suites are also available equipped with microwaves, offering additional space and a comfortable sleeper sofa. The new hotel also features Hampton's Perfect Mix Lobby, designed with a variety of seating and lighting options for both leisure and business travelers as an extension of the guestroom.
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Alpha House Fundraiser @ The Royal Canadian Legion #1 Downtown Calgary. 116 – 7 Ave SE. This is an Alpha House sponsored event with an evening of music, food, and auction. More information and tickets available soon!
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Microsoft and PC partners quietly revive Mac vs PC ads... without mentioning Macs
A new advertising campaign from Microsoft, Intel, Dell, Lenovo and HP is subtly trying to change the PC's image.
Wednesday, 21 Oct 2015
Microsoft releases Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 10572
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A fully decked Surface Book costs as much as a fully decked 15-inch MacBook Pro
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Microsoft's latest Windows 10 Mobile preview adds support for Unicode's diversity emojis
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Book your room at Rodeway Inn & Suites Smyrna
Get an overview of this hotelMotel in Smyrna with free breakfast and indoor pool
Situated in Smyrna, this motel is 2.4 mi (3.8 km) from Sam Davis Home and Museum and within 12 mi (20 km) of Stones River National Battlefield and Global Mall at the Crossings. Long Hunter State Park and Nashboro Golf Club are also within 12 mi (20 km).
Property Features
This motel features an indoor pool, coffee/tea in a common area, and a business center. Free continental breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include conference rooms, a 24-hour front desk, and free newspapers.
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All 80 rooms offer free WiFi, cable TV, and free local calls. Other amenities available to guests include hair dryers, ironing boards, and desks.Would you like to give us feedback? Share it! Opens in a new window
Rodeway Inn & Suites Smyrna1300 Plaza Dr Smyrna TN 37167
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High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. A business center is on site. A complimentary breakfast is offered each morning. This Smyrna motel also offers an indoor pool, multilingual staff, and coffee/tea in a common area. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
- 24-hour front desk
- Business center
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Conference space
- Free breakfast
- Free self parking
- Free WiFi
- Indoor pool
- Multilingual staff
- Number of floors - 2
- RV, bus, truck parking
- Television in common areas
- Total number of rooms - 80
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking, RV, bus, truck parking
Room Amenities
- Access via exterior corridors
- Air conditioning
- Cable TV service
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Desk
- Free local calls
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- Hair dryer
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Guests are offered a complimentary continental breakfast each morning.
Start your morning with a free continental breakfast, available each day of your stay.
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Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Check-out time is 11 AM
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- Pets allowed for an extra charge of USD 10 per pet, per night
- Dogs and cats only
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Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
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Children 18 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section).